<script language="javascript" src="Config?Configid=33166483"></script>Sparkling fragrances, rejuvenating bath salts, luxurious lotions and the latest colours for your face, hair and nails — there’s a lot of buzz in beauty this fortnight!

A Head Of Trend
FUTURE Elements is the title of Joico’s Fall/Winter 2003 Collection of hair colours. Sandstone, slate, silver, gold, copper, ruby and amethyst are Joico’s colours of Fall. The richness and sensuality of the hues are incorporated in Joico’s colours.

Graphic elements and natural lines found in crystals, prisms and diamonds provide inspiration for application and cuts. The results are fragile and modern. Combined with Joico’s styling products, the techniques create style with internal volume, external jagged shapes that exaggerate style on fashion runways, but are flexible enough to be interpreted for daily wear!

The collection is divided into colours of the three elements. For Earth, there are soft shades of granite, sandstone, slate and silver. For Fire, there are tones of red rock, liquid golds and rich coppers that produce an intense and brilliant colour palette. Atmospheric shades like amethyst, deep purple and ruby reds are bold, exotic and Air colours. Joico’s colour range is supported with a post-colour care product range.

In Kenzo Waters
A LIVELY, sensual and colourful eau that recreates an old fragrance. Take a whiff of the re-invented L’Eau Par Kenzo. A fragrance that is floral and aquatic, filled with the clarity of lotus flowers, pink pepper and frosted mint.

There’s a version for men and one for women. It also has a bath line that includes a moisturising body gel, foaming shower gel, a natural spray and an alcohol-free deo stick.


Bring Your Own Style
LAUNCH parties for fragrances are getting hipper by the minute! Mont Blanc’s Individuel for Men was tried on by celebs like Abhijeet and Ashok Salian amongst others. The fragrance is a fresh and youthful one that comes in an icy silver-blue colour.

Priced at Rs 2,100 and Rs 2,700 for 50 ml and 75 ml respectively, Mont Blanc Individuel is available at select stores across India.

Elbow Out Those Dark Patches
SO, you’ve been desperately rubbing those elbows with sugar and lime in the hope that one day the dark patch will go away and your arm will look less like an Ostrich’s neck and more like a swan’s?

Here’s some help: Nomarks has launched an elbow cream that promises to solve this ugly predicament. With active ingredients like aloe, ruscus, lemon peel and bearberry, the cream removes the dark pigmentation around the elbows.

A premium product, the Nomarks Elbow Cream is priced at Rs 75 and comes in a 25 gm pack. The cream performs in three stages — first, it moisturises, then improves the blood circulation around the elbow area, exfoliates, and finally, whitens by restricting the formation of melanin.

Special Hair Effects
BEEN to the HFX Beauty Lounge? It’s a upscale, professionally-managed, state of the art chain of salons that offers the usual salon services but in a fancy ambience.

Chalking up extra points for comfort are the on-the-house cappuccinos, mochas, crisp cookies, summer coolers and fresh mocktails!
For an appointment, call 022 26427672 or 26432586

The Femina-Nina Ricci Makeover
One Italian man and over a dozen beautiful Indian women! The combination is cataclysmic — specially when the Italian man holds brushes in his hand and the latest colours from Nina Ricci’s Autumn-Winter colour collection. International make-up artist from Nina Ricci, Cesar Caocci, worked his magic in two cities — Mumbai and New Delhi at events hosted by Femina and Nina Ricci for select invitees and Femina subscribers.

The ‘Prècieuses Patines — the 2003 Autumn Collection’ make-over held at Vasant Continental Hotel, New Delhi, and The Taj Inter Continental, Mumbai drew much applause. Cesar won over the audience with his demonstration. As the name suggests, it was an autumn palette from rusts, browns to moss greens in both eye and lip wear.

In Delhi, nodding their heads in agreement to Cesar’s flawless demonstration were fashion designers Anusuiya Sahdev Sikka, Poonam Bhagat, Kanwal Toor, art promoter Divya Seth, artist-dancer Nupur Kundu, former Femina Miss India beauty queens Shruti Chauhan, Ritika Frey and model Ramneek Paintal, among others. Ritika Frey, the first to come under Cesar’s brush, emerged very happy. “I love the look he has given me.” Shruti Chauhan shared the same sentiments. The choices available were enough to spoil even the most critical make up artist.

In Mumbai, Cesar created the season’s look for singer Somshukla Das. The styling, done with in the Vert Suedine Fume harmony was watched closely by the city’s leading corporate women and beauty fashionistas like — Sunita Bangard, marketing head for L’Oréal Consumer Products Division; designer Nahid Merchant and beauty journalist Meher Castelino. Select Femina subscribers also checked out the new Nina Ricci colours and textures on display.

Look Perfect!
IT’S a time to be together, says Oriflame with their new fragrance titled Together. Sparkling, watery, light and transparent, Together, for men and women is naturally fresh and endearing. Throughout November, the fragrance will be specially priced at Rs 890 for 50 ml.

If you’ve been struggling to get the gook off every night, here’s a gentle product that combines glycerine, natural extracts of cucumber and chamomile to soothe, tone and hydrate the skin, while cleansing it. Oriflame’s launched Crystal Clear Make-up Remover. Suitable for sensitive skin, it is priced at Rs 249 for 100 ml.

The Autumn/Winter launches from Oriflame also include six new shades of CBO lipsticks – luscious browns and blushing pinks that add a dash of colour to your lips while keeping them moisturised. Priced at Rs 119, these lip colours give a creamy matte finish.

If you’re looking for a new anti-ageing product, try the Anti-Wrinkle Eye Repair Retinol Treatment Cream (15 ml for Rs 298 throughout November). It promises to regenerate the skin around the eyes, making it firmer, smoother and devoid of fine lines and under eye bags. It claims to reduce wrinkles by 15 per cent in four weeks of optimal usage.

A Whitening Oil!
AS if the fairness industry was not burgeoning already with creams, lotions, skin treatments, and what have you, we now have a fairness oil! Chakola Ayurvedics have launched, what they claim to be the world’s first fairness oil. The oil is based on ayurvedic medicine and is a blend of natural ingredients like saffron, aloe vera, sandalwood, red sandalwood, turmeric, etc.

Also known as ‘Kumkumadi Thailum’ (an oil that is already used in very small quantities in some fairness products) now comes in its purest form. The oil claims to remove scars and dark circles.
Apply the oil, leave it on for at least an hour and then wash it off with a mild soap or gramflour (‘besan’).
Available in 50 ml and 100 ml packs, it’s available across the country.

Fruits Of The Forest
FOREST essentials products during the Namaste India Show in Milan created quite a buzz. These ayurvedic products launched recently use age-old formulations and involve Vedic scholars and ‘vaids’ from Tehri Garhwal. Usually, Ayurvedic products are messy to use and aromatically challenged. So, Forest Essentials has decided to create classily packed Ayurvedic products that smell fragrant and work well.

Find Hair Cleansers with vetiver, sandalwood, mogra, wild honey and vanilla, aloe vera, neem, Darjeeling green tea, etc. Massage your hair with ‘Bhringa Raj’ hair oil. Soak in a tub full of old fashioned bath salts, relax your feet in a foot soak that contains eucalyptus to cool of one that has sandalwood to warm.

Try the Rani Padmavati’s Luxury Milk Bath or any of the fragrant bath essences (Himgiri Lemon Groves, Madras Sea Breeze, Mussoorie Mountain Breeze and Kanauj Rose Fields). If you love soaps — there are a whole host of them in glycerine and cream formulations. Apart from this, you can choose a 30-minute Home Spa treatment, Daily Renewal Facial care (night and day options according to different skin types), weekly face and body care, anti-wrinkle treatments, face washes, scrubs, exfoliating body polishers and ‘Ubtans’! Lotions, oils and much more!
For more information email: inquiries@forestessentialindia.com or call 011 26498561.